If you like stories where no one is right, you’ll love this one. Tyler, the Creator and the rest of Odd Future visited Australia this week, much to the dismay of Talitha Stone, a member of the online feminist activist group Collective Shout. They’ve spearheaded a campaign to kick Tyler out of the country, because of his lyrics that “promote hate speech against women, perpetuating male entitlement to use women’s bodies…Tyler the Creator’s glorification of rape and violence against women could be considered inciting his fans to commit violent crimes against them.”

The “lyrics = EVIL” argument is never the right road to go down (see: Columbine, Marilyn Manson), but at least it’s not as juvenile and abhorrent as what Tyler did during a show on Thursday. According to Pitchfork:

Tyler, in characteristically petulant fashion, went on a rant against Stone during his show last night (she was in attendance). “F*cking bitch, I wish she could hear me call her a bitch, too, f*cking whore,” he said. “Yeah, I got a sold-out show right now bitch. Hey this f*cking song is dedicated to you, you f*cking c*nt.”

“I was petrified,” Stone, who captured clear video of the rant on her phone. “I was standing among the crowd of people chanting along with threats toward me.” She’s since reported him to the police on grounds of verbal abuse, but her efforts might be futile: “F*CK THAT SHOW WAS THE BEST F*CK,” Tyler tweeted. “AUS WAS AWES… THEY MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS IMPORTANT TONIGHT DUDE.” (Via)

One unlucky proponent of Stone’s cause: conservative Australian House of Representatives member Alex Hawke.

Hawke told the House of Representatives this week, per The Music: “Allowing this man a visa to promote this misogyny to audiences, including children, is a complete disgrace and an insult to all of us, and to women in particular. Australia must be clear that we have a zero tolerance for these extreme acts of violence, and the government and the minister have power to take action against this sort of intolerance and those encouraging the dehumanisation of women.”

Hawke has gone so far as to involve Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, saying: “Prime Minister, I urge you…to seriously reconsider and review the visa granted to Tyler, The Creator under section 501, the character assessment test. All of us should stop the spread of this vile message against women.” (Via)

I disagree. He’s not a douche, he just seriously can’t give even half a fuck about anything. Everything he talks about in his lyrics aren’t things he has actually done or is pretending he is doing, it’s all about being able to say whatever he wants, no matter how ignorant. If anybody is to blame for the behaviors of people towards women, it’s the parents of an abuser, not Tyler. I respect him for doing this in the face of someone being ridiculous. All those fans at that show aren’t gonna go out and rape somebody, they’re just gonna go home and go to bed like everyone else.

Australian law makes it an offence to do what the clown did, it is as simple as that. He was a guest in the country, will have signed a visa application where it was made perfectly clear to him that he had to obey ALL Australian laws if the visa was granted. He signed it MEANING TO BREAK THE LAW. You guys have some laws in your country about “freedom of speech”, and good for you. You laud yourselves that these are somehow “sacred laws”, and conveniently ignore the fact that EVEN IN THE USA they are qualified.

If some Australian citizen applied for a visa to the USA, and in a concert broke one of your laws “Because that isn’t a crime in Australia” would you be so utterly brain dead and infantile to write that “No one was right” ?.

It is against Australian Federal law, and New South Wales state law to do what he did. And the woman and he group not only did nothing wrong AT ALL, what they did was proper and right.

Seconding the question on which law he violated. Besides the knee-jerk anti-American tone I’m detecting — are you trying to say there is a law against saying someone is a bitch?
I think Tyler will be alright if he gets banned from your country over this. This is making Australia look like a bunch of whiny, oversensitive babies.

Idiot children that get offended by language and not action deserve the outrage and misery their own mind paints their world in.

She was at the concert just to stew in her own anger and outrage. She is everything he said she was. Hate courses through her veins. She doesn’t fight the things that cause the abuse of women. Things like ignorance, poverty and mental illness. She gets angry at words spoken by an entertainer. Video games also cause violence and homosexual marriage also tears apart the familial units. Sorry were the later not in fashion with you arbitrary farces?

Trolling sensitive crybabies who can do nothing but scan the horizon for the next thing to cry about is the sweetest of meats.

Why is what he did any more than the incendiary bs your other childhood idols cooked up you aged turds? I mean besides that you want to hate him but not the things you enjoy like, apparently, Marilyn Manson; who is no more of a pseudo intellectual child than Tyler.

Your probably right though. Who knew the arbitrators of good taste in entertainment and music existed right here in this dated content aggregator.

Thank you for making explicit the problem with people having a little bit of learning, jbasc. Such a shame you failed to make equally explicit your own meaning; a dozen spelling mistakes, and some of them completely reversing the probable intent of your syntax means we have to do your thinking for you.

You name some things also to be warded against by civilised men and women, ( I wish I could believe you had mentioned “ignorance” ironically, but then the ignorant never understand this about themselves ) and seem to think that because a group has spoken out about one aspect of societies good, this predicates their not considering others. Fallacious thinking, sport.

Your entire post is nothing but opinion and assumption that you don’t even try to support on anything other than your own misogynistic prejudice. The only thing you get correct, you do so accidentally, because of your limited ability to utilise the language we share.

“Marilyn Manson; who is no more of a pseudo intellectual child than Tyler”.

You are exactly the reason why people like this clown Tyler can not be allowed to break societies laws under the disguise of “art”. Vapid sponges like yourself need protecting from your own limitations, you probably became a misogynist by being allowed to listen to this poison since you were in leading strings.

Clearly he was being extremely sarcastic but he’s a no-talent fuck that is ironically rebelling against the establishment for the sake of doing it. When NWA or PE were doing it, there was real meaning to their words. When this shitstain does it, it just shows that he’s got nothing better to do with his life.